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Oil, Gas and Water

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8/28/2017

As we enter the era of the IoT, water treatment equipment will require not only automatic monitoring and control capabilities, also cloud functionality to facilitate system development. Advantech offers intelligent water treatment solutions integrated with WebAccess software and diversified hardware as an automatic monitoring and control system.

WhitePaper
8/23/2017

Video
8/3/2017

With the rapid advancements of Internet of Things which provides a huge range of opportunities for all industries. Energy and Environment have become issues of concern for the public. Industrial IoT technologies focus on the processes of sensing, control monitoring, and remote communication and by c...

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4/27/2017

Advantech’s WISE-PaaS/IIoT is a market-oriented cooperation model using WebAccess, the IoT software framework as its core, to link solutions, partners’ strengths and strategic co-marketing to get into focused vertical markets. It aims to offer complete IoT solutions for a wide array of markets, also...

Case Studies
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12/19/2016

Wastewater treatment plant is a basic infrastructure in modern society to purify wastewater created by homes and businesses. Its operation is 24 hours a day and wastewater treatment comprises multiple processes to remove solids, organic compounds and other matters. Such a complex workflow needs a ca...

Industry Focus
Advantech |
5/24/2016

Lifeless electric snakes swimming in the sea, ready to strike at a whim at whoever enters the water are the things of horror films. At a primordial level they get into our very psyche. If the sea makes you both scared and respectful, then slithering things lurking deep in the dark with glowing eyes...

Industry Focus
Advantech |
4/26/2016

Detecting oil and gas leaks along thousands of kilometers of pipelines, refineries, airports and other critical national infrastructure is an expensive and time consuming practice. In many cases, it involves the use of manual labor to either use cameras or to point wander around with electronic gas...

Industry Focus
Advantech |
4/18/2016

A few years ago, the latest buzz word was “Augmented Reality”. The plan was that we would all be using our cellphones to display more information about the world around us by pointing our cameras. The hype was that we’d be able to walk past restaurants point our cameras and get the...

Industry Focus
Advantech |
1/21/2016

One of the problems with oil and gas pipelines is that they go very deep underwater and this can make them very difficult to discover faults on. Currently the way it’s done is by using PIGS which propel through the pipelines cleaning them out and, with sensors discovering leaks.

Industry Focus
Advantech |
12/14/2015

In our nice cozy lives in the developed world, the chances of drinking contaminated water are slim, and even if we do drink some that’s stale, the worst we’ll get is a bit sick. But industrial accidents do happen and if the water of a food processing plant or drinking water facility is t...

Case Studies
Advantech |
12/9/2015

In mountainous regions around the world heavy rainfall can cause the flooding of rivers much further downstream thereby causing major problems to residents and businesses. Many governments around the world have taken steps to actively protect people’s livelihoods and property with the expansio...

Industry Focus
Advantech |
12/7/2015

One of the greatest environmental problems for the planet is our continuous use of plastic. Not only is it made from oil but it takes a very very long time to break down, in fact never entirely doing so. So far modern recycling concentrate on efforts to reuse the plastic for more plastic, but in man...

WhitePaper
12/2/2015

The power of the Internet of Things (IoT) is enabled by the implementation of intelligent electronic devices and sensors on communication networks with real-time data exchange and control functionality between the field and a control center. It allows utilities to have better visibility into the sys...

Industry Focus
Advantech |
11/16/2015

Water is a finite resource and we’re constantly being told to conserve as much as possible. The doomsday scenarios of droughts and water shortages have been embedded into our collective consciousness for many years.

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Advantech |
11/9/2015

WebAccess, as the cornerstone of Advantech’s IoT solutions, is the world’s first HMI/SCADA software based on web browser, which means that the user can implement configuration and monitoring control via an IE browser and that the software provides powerful networking capabilities. With A...

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Advantech |
10/8/2015

Title: Green Factory IT
Abstract: Please join Advantech webinar about the Green Factory IT to hear more about the benefits of Green IT in Smart Factories and Facilities. We will also discuss about what are the European Union restrictions and directions for companies in this matter? Does EU...

Case Studies
Advantech |
10/7/2015

In recent years, the rapid development of information technology has popularized calculator technology, control technologyand network communication technology, therefore, establishing the costs of the remote monitoring system is no longerunattainable. Exploiting oil and gas fields needs...

Case Studies
Advantech |
10/7/2015

Under the impetus of Internet of things technology, water supplies will be equipped with an intelligent water network. Waterpumping stations are the most important node in a water network, the booster pumping station can influence the publicwater, the drainage pumping station can ensure...

Industry Focus
Advantech |
10/5/2015

It seems that we can’t get enough of drones, they are everywhere. They’re being used to take spectacular and unusual videos that would have once required helicopters and there are competitions where enthusiasts build their own race them around obstacle courses using FPV goggles.

Industry Focus
Advantech |
9/7/2015

In the past we’ve discussed the use of mesh nets to collect dew and send it to water storage containers below. These are particularly useful in areas that have high humidity but low rainfall. But what if you have low humidity and low rainfall i.e. a desert, what do you do to collect water?

Industry Focus
Advantech |
8/31/2015

We’re all used to seeing solar energy being used to power homes and some shops and provide energy to “the grid”, but it’s rarely used to power machinery.
Now things are changing. In that sun-rich country of Oman, they are going to use solar energy to produce stea...

Industry Focus
Advantech |
8/21/2015

A few weeks ago the Internet was buzzing about a Californian reservoir’s use of ‘shade balls’ to prevent the evaporation of its precious water in the midst of one of the worst droughts in the state’s history.

Industry Focus
Advantech |
8/5/2015

Boutros Boutros Ghali, as head of the UN, once wrote that “"The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics.", that was back in 1985” and although that hasn’t yet been proved true, it is a message which has subsequently been repeated by others incl...

Advantech’s RS-485 I/O Modules, ADAM-4000 series, are the perfect choice for establishing a cost-effective remote I/O system. Customers can benefit from ADAM-4000 modules through its simple wiring using only two wires to communicate with their controller or other RS-485 devices. ADAM-4000 modules use the EIA RS-485 ...

Advantech's Ethernet I/O Modules, ADAM-6000 series, accomplishes this integration easily through the latest internet technology, so that it can remotely monitor the device status more flexibly. ADAM-6000 modules are empowered by Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Graphic Condition Logic (GCL), and can perform as standalone products ...

Advantech WebAccess is a 100% web-based SCADA software solution/IIoT platform with open interfaces for developing IoT applications. It also acts as a gateway for collecting data from ground equipment and transferring the data to cloud applications via MQTT publish/subscribe. WebAccess features an HTML5-based intelligent ...